In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha took a detailed review of the overall developmental scenario of Srinagar district in meeting at Civil Secretariat Srinagar yesterday. He took stock of the various developmental projects being undertaken by different agencies and the impact of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes being implemented in the district.<br />''<br />''Srinagar Deputy Commissioner&nbsp; Shahid Iqbal Choudhary gave a Power Point presentation outlining the brief profile of the district and various developmental indicators to the Lt Governor. He also informed about the status of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes being implemented in the district. He also briefed the Lt Governor about various innovations and milestones achieved by the District Administration. He informed the meeting that 10 Modern Revenue Offices are getting ready by the end of September, besides achieving 100 per cent completion of Jamabandi updation and 89 per cent digitization of the same to date. He stated that specific interventions have been made in education and health sector to improve the overall scenario in the district. In all, 25 smart schools have been established and work is going on in additional 50 schools for smart classrooms. Further,&nbsp; five PHCs have been developed as Smart Hospitals and at present 4,000-bedded COVID Care Centers have been established. Laying stress on Grievance Redressal Mechanism, the district has established the UT's first IVRS Call Centre for public grievance redressal in which around 12,000 tickets stand generated to this date and more than 8,300 issues related to services have been resolved.<br />''<br />''The Lt Governor directed for immediate capacity enhancement of COVID care beds and called for achieving 100 per cent saturation in all Centrally Sponsored and Social Security Schemes so that larger population can avail the maximum benefits out of these schemes and programmes. He also directed to ensure that 100 per cent payment with Aadhaar linkage is done to benefit the beneficiaries under Social Security Schemes.He exhorted upon the officers to lay special focus on improving the prompt service delivery mechanism for the timely disposal of public grievances.<br />''<br />''Later, the Lt. Governor took stock of the various projects for Housing, Urban Transport, and Srinagar Smart City Mission. It was also informed that DPRs for the two Light Rail Transit Systems for the two capital Cities has been finalized and the execution of Jammu and Srinagar Mass Rapid Transit Corporations (MRTCs) has been proposed through DMRC.<br />''<br />''On Smart City projects, the Lt. Governor was apprised that 15 projects have been completed, 20 are ongoing and four stand tendered. Work has been started on integrated command and control center to cover issues related to emergency services, essential services, city traffic management, security, citywide CCTV monitoring, disaster management, drainage, and other services,5 KM cycle track, smart vending zone, parking, city beautification, Variable Message Display, Reverse Vending Zone.<br />''<br />''The Lt. Governor stressed upon the officials to speed up the pace of work on all ongoing projects around the city so that the completed projects can be commissioned for public use at the earliest. He asked officers to conduct regular on-site reviews to resolve all bottlenecks, besides achieving a high level of Inter-Departmental synergy.<br />
News On AIR | September 5, 2020 2:38 PM
J&K: Lt Guv takes detailed review of overall developmental scenario of Srinagar district